Re: [Evolution] Stuck on Formatting Message (...)

[Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:56 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > I have not completely understood exactly what causes it but through many
> > versions of evolution right up to and including the 2.4.1 I am using
> > right now, sometimes I will click on a message and it will come up in
> > the preview window and the status bar will say "Formatting message
> > (...)".  That message will then be stuck in the preview window and
> > clicking on new messages does not change it.
> >
> > The common issue seems to be HTML messages with image references in them
> > (which I am not loading).  I have one in particular that causes the
> > problem frequently.  It also seems to happen frequently if I plow
> > through the described kind of message quickly.  If I give evolution
> > enough time to complete rendering it seems to happen less.
> >
> > I have to restart evolution to be able to see new messages in the
> > preview window at this point.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Evolution currently seems to insist on rendering (and in the case of
> IMAP retrieving) the mail, while navigating through the mal list with
> the "preview" pane enabled. This is not interruptible, AFAIK.
>
> If you got mails that reproducibly trigger bad behavior, please consider
> filing a bug report and attaching that message to the report (the raw
> mail, do not copy-n-paste it).
>
>
> I have seen mails (particularly viruses), that take long to render,
> maxing out the the CPU. And I have seen mails crashing Evo. I haven't
> seen any mail yet though, that "renders forever" and forces the user to
> kill Evo... HTH

I have. Always HTML mail. Disabling loading images from the internet
resolved it.

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Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>